Stephanie Burns Artist
Stephanie at the exhibition Private View of Elysium Verto - Paradise is Changing 2018, Los Angeles, CA.
DESCRIPTION/NOTES
As I age more living things have personality to me. In our world of over population and Global Warming the flora and fauna around us cry out to be seen. To wake us up from our greed and negligence.
Bought at my local farmer’s market in Hollywood, Los Angeles on a recent residency. This sunflower welcomed me to the dawn of each day. Bringing memories of art lives past and mentors honoured. The window over my bed faced the morning sun and the open face of this sunflower was quivering with delight when I woke, it seemed to be foretelling a warning wanting me to take notice.
Most of my 35 year oeuvre has talked about nature morte often through flowers, whether sculpted or painted. The longer you look the more you will see.
Sunflower
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Sunflower
March 2018
March 2018
Oil On Canvas
60 x 48 x 1.5 in (152.4 x 121.92 x 3.81 cm)
Location: UK
60 x 48 x 1.5 in (152.4 x 121.92 x 3.81 cm)
Location: UK
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Stephanie at the exhibition Private View of Elysium Verto - Paradise is Changing 2018, Los Angeles, CA.
DESCRIPTION/NOTES
As I age more living things have personality to me. In our world of over population and Global Warming the flora and fauna around us cry out to be seen. To wake us up from our greed and negligence.
Bought at my local farmer’s market in Hollywood, Los Angeles on a recent residency. This sunflower welcomed me to the dawn of each day. Bringing memories of art lives past and mentors honoured. The window over my bed faced the morning sun and the open face of this sunflower was quivering with delight when I woke, it seemed to be foretelling a warning wanting me to take notice.
Most of my 35 year oeuvre has talked about nature morte often through flowers, whether sculpted or painted. The longer you look the more you will see.
"When she transitioned to the brush it was an event, not just because her sculpture had become rarer still, but because it was a reshaping of her vision into a new medium. The landscapes and natural Australian forms of her past now took their shape in pigment and movements of colour. Following on from the post-impressionists and the fine art tradition pursuing man and woman's search for beauty.
These new flower paintings, not unlike Bacon, are almost figurative pieces, the flower represented in its singularity as having a personality. When Van Gogh painted his flowers he was said to be painting at the manic rate of around three paintings a day, in all states of blossoming and wilting, on the edge of death, grasping onto the preciousness of life. The way these two artists see the world comes out in this same kind of paradox, this obsession with life and death fuels them to master their craft. For Burns these flowers have a life beyond a pleasing decorative object, but a part of this ecosystem, and more like something fundamental to our planet. That is both fragile, necessary and constantly changing." Laurence Fuller, Elysium Verto - Paradise is Changing. Exhibition catalogue, 2018.
These new flower paintings, not unlike Bacon, are almost figurative pieces, the flower represented in its singularity as having a personality. When Van Gogh painted his flowers he was said to be painting at the manic rate of around three paintings a day, in all states of blossoming and wilting, on the edge of death, grasping onto the preciousness of life. The way these two artists see the world comes out in this same kind of paradox, this obsession with life and death fuels them to master their craft. For Burns these flowers have a life beyond a pleasing decorative object, but a part of this ecosystem, and more like something fundamental to our planet. That is both fragile, necessary and constantly changing." Laurence Fuller, Elysium Verto - Paradise is Changing. Exhibition catalogue, 2018.